Improvement in car-heaters



T. KEECH.

- CAR-HEATER. No, 189,743. Patented Apri117, 1877.

X N PETERS, PHOTO-UTHDGRAPHER. WASNINGTDN. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

THOMAS KEEGH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-HEATERS.

,, Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 189,743, dated April17, 1877; application filed March 14, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS KEEOH, of New York city, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented an Apparatus for WarmingStreet-Cars and other Vehicles; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full and exact description thereof, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification.

My invention has for its object a simple, economic, and effectual meansfor the proper heating of street-cars and other vehicles; and

to this end and object consists in the use of a sufficient number oflamps arranged beneath the seats, or in some other suitable positionnear the bottom of the car, having combined with them pipes or tubes,which conduct the heated air and products of combustion therefrom, andradiating-tubes connected with said conducting tubes, all as will behereinafter more fully described.

To enable those skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to more fully explain its construction and operation, referringby letters to the accompanying drawing, forming part of thisspecification, in which I have illustrated my invention as applied to anordinary street or horse car.

Figure l is a partial central longitudinal section of an ordinaryhorse-car, and Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same, at the line as m,Fig. 1. y

F is the floor of the car, S the side or seat; back of the same, and Bthe seats ,on which the passengers sit. Immediately underneath the seatB, and near its front edge, is located a pipe or tube, A, by preferencerunning the entire length of the seat and car, and having numerousperforations, l 2 3, &c., and extending downward and backward from saidpipe A are three, more or less, tubes or conduitpipes, G, which, attheir lower portions, open into or communicate with the lampholder orcylinders (J. In each of these cylinders, which has a suitable slidingor other door, 0, is arranged a lamp, d, which I propose to havesupplied with alcohol or other burning-fluid, that will not generateduring combustion any unpleasant odor or smoke.

The operation and effect of the apparatus thus far described will bereadily understood to be as follows:

The lamps d beinglighted, and the doors or other means of ingress of airto the cylinders 0 being properly adjusted, the air supplied to thecylinders 0, together with the products of combustion, will ascendthrough the tubes G into the pipe A, as indicated by the arrows at Fig.2, and, escaping through the apparatus or holes 1 2 3, &c., of pipe A,will comfortably warm the car and the occupants thereof,

Of course, the number and capacity of the lamps may be varied, asexperience may dietate and circumstances require, and either all, orfewer than the whole number, of lamps with which the car is supplied maybe used at once, according to the weather and other conditions.

The air supplied to the lamps and the cylinders 0 may be either takenfrom the interior of the car, or may be supplied from without byopenings or air-passages leading directly to the lamp-holders orcylinders (I.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A car-heating apparatus, consisting of the radiating perforated tube A,conducting-pipes G, lamp-holders G, and lamps d, all arrangedsubstantially in the manner shown, to operate as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 28th dayof February,

THOMAS KEEOEI. In presence of J. N. MOINTIRE, J AGOB FELBEL.

